I have the Japanese R2 DVD which has 2 or 3 more minutes of Beat Takeshi. Not that it helped.
I recall Henry Rollins at one of the late night talk show junkets relaying how Dolph lifting him up off his feet was the 1st time he ever felt like someone’s bitch.
Oh yeah, I remember that! Was Later with Greg Kinnear!
Lundgren was on Jon Stewart’s syndicated late night show (that took over for Arsenio) to promote MNEMONIC. Fun interview. Then that show was axed like two weeks later.
Regarding Casper, I recall that the Whitman people were unhappy that the film depicted their character as the spirit of a dead child. He’s just supposed to be a juvenile noncorporeal being.
Funny that Ebert claimed Jessica Rabbit was CG. He should have known better, but it wouldn’t be the first or last time he invented facts to support his arguments…
I just stumbled across this Internet Archive link to the Casper script. There are 1147 scripts uploaded so far!
I saw JOHNNY MNEMONIC at the drive-in, in the rain, paired with the first Smith/Lawrence BAD BOYS.
A true night at the theatah!
Thirty years later and I’m still pissed about that title theft.
Friday June 2nd, 1995:
Clint Eastwood adapts the blockbuster novel The Bridges Of Madison County. Ebert review.
Matthew Modine is a man trapped in a dog’s body in Fluke. Siskel & Ebert review video.
Lori Petty makes her second appearance this year in the realistic police drama The Glass Shield. Siskel & Ebert review video. Great Jonathan Rosenbaum article (warning: Weinstein) about the movie and the business of selling it from the Chicago Reader. Remember alt-weekly papers?
June 9th, 1995:
Hal Hartley directs Isabelle Huppert in The Amateur. Ebert review.
Since his scenes were cut from The Quick And The Dead, enjoy Bruce Campbell’s only theatrical appearance this year. Ebert review.
Now available in 4K!
CONGO is Ernie Hudson’s finest hour.
Delroy Lindo’s finest hour!
Definitely not Laura Linney’s (that “put them on the endangered species list” line still haunts me)
How about Joe Don Baker?
“I WANT THAT DIAMOND!”
I recently watched GOLDEN NEEDLES for the first time and thought JDB was the fucking man in that.
Stop eating my sesame cake!
Joey Pantoliano’s finest hour
I love all these side characters in CONGO who feel like they pop into this movie from a separate movie where they’re the main character. You just know Eddie Ventro is in the middle of several other adventures.
Also I always think about that huge guy yelling at Grant Heslov when they are arrested. “WHOS KAFKA?! TELL ME!”. This movie is so good.
I credit most of that – beyond casting fun performers, even in the bit parts – to John Patrick Shanley forcing some of his voice through the Crichton material.
I guess I’m going to have to revisit Congo sometime. I remember being really disappointed seeing it in the theaters after reading the book first. But I probably wouldn’t care about that now and would actually know who Bruce Campbell is this time.
Sphere probably still sucks and nothing will ever change that.
One of my favorite line readings ever is Hudson’s almost sing songy “Yes I gave her the banana with the dope inside.”
Watched it for the first time mere months ago and it was a reminder of how much I crave actual sets, casts filled with great character actors and cinematography that actually gives a shit about lighting, color and composition. The 2020s have been a damn desert.
I just watched Congo for the first time, I think (free from the local library via Hoopla). I didn’t read the book when I worked at a bookstore in the '90s, but one of the assistant managers was very excited about the movie. He loved the book, which I believe had an ape civilization and Amy spoke to them using her tech? I recall that he was let down by the movie, which treats the grey apes as an afterthought.
I loved that Dylan Walsh’s scientist and Amy were both at U.C. Berkeley. 90s notes: 59/79/99 menu items from Taco Bell are visible in the lab, along with a Silicon Graphics monitor and a new logo can of Pepsi. Synergy!
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